WHAT IS INTERDEPENDENCE? A few years ago, when I was working at The Food Conspiracy Co-Op in Tucson, a customer of mine wished me a Happy Interdependence Day. He then smiled and said, “…because we all need each other.” That message has stayed with me these past few...

Participating In An Economy We Believe In The average American’s shopping cart holds stories perpetuating a rather profound misery — sweatshop labor, factory farmed animals, genetically modified monocultures that leach into nearby water — yet we are removed from these...

LOCAL GOODWILL There are many things I love about the local movement, and one is the spirit of goodwill that tends to show up with it.The word community” begins to creep in to “commerce.” This particularly happens when people start getting to know each other over...